If it's going to be folded, straight acrylic paint will buckle & shed along the fold lines. Either thin the paint about 1/8th with water so it soaks into the fibers more, or add a fabric medium to the paint (I use the GAC 900 from Golden Paints, you could also use their silk-screen medium which would give you more work time with the paint).

I'd recommend using something heavier than just cotton - "clothing weight" cotton won't hold up to that much painting at that size. You can either get banner material (available at most decent art supplies or some office supply stores), get a cheap grade of canvas fabric (also from an art supply), or look around to see if there's anywhere in your area to get recycled billboard material (that stuff is the bomb!)

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The billboard stuff is heavy and does not hold paint very well. I've tried. We use it for flooring.A campmate successfully painted heavyweight cotton twill and cotton duck hangings, acrylics mixed with fabric medium. The panels run 3x6 or so, and are rolled rather than folded. We also have a canvas floorcloth which was painted will wall acrylics and craftstore acrylics, lightly coated with polyurethane spray, it holds up very well, no flaking at all. Can be cleaned with a hose at home.

Grommets will be your friend on hanging cloth.

Actually, the nice hangings went to a new home in a couple's split. I miss them.

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Colors ate more vivid when not dusty.

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Floorcloth is primed, but you can use canvas, or 12 oz. cotton duck. Floorcloth usually comes precut and preshrunk. Lots of DIY stuff to google. I double primed mine with eggshell wall paint before using the color acrylics. I used rollers, dab technique, and paint stamps. Polyurethane spray topcoat. Grommets mean you can nail it down to the playa.

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We used canvas drop cloths from home depot and painted them with house paint (I think it was exterior paint). It worked great, and didnt flake/crack when loosely folded. We did a double coat. Depending on the size of your project, you can get samples instead of buying a whole can. I think they charged $3 per little sample jar at home depot.

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I think he means sample size paints. I get those for small projects where art acrylics will not be cost effectiveThe problem with drop cloths is some are treated or coated and do not hold paint well. So you will need to read labels and get touchy feely and experiment.

8 oz would be good for hanging. We use funky old thrift shop curtains.

We bought 8oz canvas drop cloths for ground coverings last year under our 30 foot monkey hut. I installed grommets in 4 corners and staked them down. Despite being pretty tight to the ground, wind got under them and caused them to flap like crazy until we put heavy stuff along the edge. The cloth ended up ripping a decent amount at several of the grommets. The rest of the cloth didnt tear from a good amount of foot traffic, though I wouldnt consider it a really solid solution. It did help to keep the dust down under the hut, and made sitting on the floor more inviting. Not a horrible solution if you're going cheap (like we genearally prefer to), but I'm not sure we will be able to use them more than one additional time.

One of our issues may have also been that we didnt use the best grommets in the world on the floor cover. We used the same fabric for a 4'x6' painted sign and the grommets held up well (though we did have additional support lines running along the fabric to disperse the tension).

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We use heavy duty military surplus grommets.... actually liberated from active duty grommets.... and the edges as well as the corners need a few. We nail our floor coverings down with landscaper spikes. Basically foot long nails. Handy.I would go a little heavier for the floor, but lighter weight canvas may work well under the tent area.